(Johannesburg, South Africa) – February 23, 2010 – Wits Wargames Club will be hosting the first South African Heroes of Newerth (HoN) LAN tournament sponsored by S2 Games, iGame, ASUS. This tournament is scheduled to take place on Saturday March 13, 2010 at the Old Mutual Sports Hall on the Wits University Campus, Johannesburg, at 09:00 until 20:00, and is to raise funds for the Wits Wargames Club, to contribute towards a bursary for electronic sports and club room equipment.
The tournament is open to public and for the first time in South Africa teams will be able to compete face to face at a LAN and join in remotely online if unable to travel. The Lair will be administering the tournament and the local area network will be provided and supported by Mayhem. The iGame South African Heroes of Newerth server will interconnect all players.
Sponsors have donated the following prizes:
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1st Place Team of 5 |
$300 cash equivalent by S2. |
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1st Place Team of 5 |
5 pre-paid Heroes of Newerth accounts by S2 |
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1st Place Team of 5 |
5x ASUS gift bags by ASUS |
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2st Place Team of 5 |
5 Roccat Kova Mice and 5 Roccat Sense Mousepads from iGame |
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3rd Place Team of 5 |
5x ASUS tool kits by ASUS |
In addition to these Prizes, iGame will run a special pre-event competition via its forums: up for grabs is one Intel Core i3 530 CPU, 2GB DDR3 1333Mhz RAM and one Gigabyte H55M S2H Intel P55 Chipset Motherboard. All going to one lucky HoN player.
Registration is limited to the first 16 teams who register, and the tournament format will consist of initial round robin and subsequent elimination. Registration is R50 per person, and goes towards Club fundraising. A team must have at least one member at the LAN to represent the team in the case of winning a prize, other team members can be playing from anywhere within South Africa.
The Tournament main page is on the Wits Wargames Club webpage http://wargames.wits.ac.za/honlan/
Registration is on the Lair webpage http://www.thelair.co.za.
Tournament organization is on the iGame forums, http://igameonline.co.za/index.php?board=41.0
About Wits Wargames Club
The Wits Wargames Club is responsible for the promotion of Electronic Sports and Board Games at Wits University. Wits Wargames Club under the guidance of Wits Sports Administration offers bursaries to young students with skill and aptitude in Electronic Sports. Wits Wargames Club has distributed over 2000 Heroes of Newerth closed beta keys. The Club is raising money to improve and provide facilities for Electronic Sports on campus and assist gamers who are studying at university. Donations are appreciated and needed. Please contact Simon Modise (Club chairman) on (011) 7179408 for more information.
For more information, please contact:
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Bryan Banfield The Lair 082-902-7211 thebanman@thelair.co.za |
Simon Modise Wits Wargames Club – Chairman (073) 4575834 Simon.Modise@wits.ac.za |